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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

John Maynard Keynes

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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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Avoid Bank Blame Dangerous Himself Ruin Sound
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Advance Experience Provision
I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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Bank Known Myself People Understand University
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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Death Philosophy Wasted Time
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Fade Market Yourself
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Finding Goodness Mistake Quick Yourself
I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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Ideas Origin Party Politics
The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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Experience Knowledge Life Love Objective Principle
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Chaos Help Invention Man System World
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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Compromise Expectation Final Position Result
The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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Avoid Friendship Gold Revolution Wisdom
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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Growth Object Religion Save True Virtue

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